- [Instructor] If your templates save you time…and make you more efficient,…then you can double, triple, quadruple,…exponentially increase the impact…of your templates by sharing them…with other people who never had…to create them at all,…who simply need to be able to receive them…and competently use them.…As soon as you let it be known…to your colleagues that you're creating templates,…expect them to become curious,…and before you begin sharing your templates,…I want to take a moment…to help you think strategically about…how you want to share templates.…There are really five major methods…of sharing templates from Microsoft Word.…

The first and the easiest is by email.…You simply go to the folder…where that template lives,…in the case of Word Templates…that we've been creating,…in My Documents in the Custom Templates folder,…right-click the template…and choose Send To Mail Recipient…and send it off.…Depending on the security settings in your organization,…if there's an issue with mailing .x or .m files,…then you might need to put it in a compressed folder…

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1/22/2018

Learn how to find, use, and customize templates in Microsoft Word. In this course, Gini von Courter shows you how to work with common Word templates and make your own. Discover how to build resumes, invoices, fax cover letters, and more. Gini shows how to take one of the thousands of free available templates, and customize and save your own version. She also shows how to convert an existing document to a template, format it with styles, and lock the template down to prevent edits once you share it with others. Plus, learn to leverage advanced features in your templates: content controls, building blocks, document properties, and field codes. By the end of the course, you'll know how to make and save your own templates so you'll always have them handy in Word.